Hello again;

I’m trying to write a post that will share my own accomplishments in a way that will help you achieve those goals that have alluded you.

This isn’t easy because for so many years I have been one of those people who believes that waiting for a specific day is not the answer.

I’ve talked with podcast hosts about how I’d rather work throughout the year to have something to celebrate than to wait until the ball drops to start that new journey.

I’ve written often about taking action today instead of waiting until tomorrow, next week, next month, or that mythical day of someday that never comes.

And I firmly believe that the only perfect time is the time we feel in our hearts and minds.

So, writing this time of year my goal is to try to share something that will help you keep going when you hit that wall that most people run into about the third week of January.

Maybe sharing my journey concerning how I feel about my voice and my singing ability might be the best way to share my thoughts.

In 2015 I wrote a post called Why I Sing, and How I Can Help You Free the Song in Your Own Heart.

I chronicled how I overcame the fear of singing in public out of the necessity to have an intro for videos I was recording for my amusement equipment brokering site www.midwaymarketplace.com

I talked about how people had made fun of me as my voice was changing in junior high school.. And that those feelings were aggravated by the loss of confidence from also losing a big chunk of my vision at about the same time.

And how the more I sang the more people that were impressed by my singing and the more who asked me to sing even more.

That lead to recording myself singing full-length songs and posting them to youtube.

Then in April of 2017 I was invited to take part in a family night at my church. The rehearsals didn’t go well, and I thought about saying no.

But we finally found three others for me to sing with, and we did a credible job of I wonder Why.

You can read more about that experience and watch the video by reading What I Learned From a Successful Church Talent Show Appearance.

In spite of a problem with some microphones that disappeared and then reappeared half-way through our song it was a great night. And it probably gave me the confidence to want to sing more.

Later that spring I traveled to Philadelphia to give my first public talk at an event called Dreamcon.

After the event was over I was emboldened to ask if I could sing in front of the event banner. The other speakers were taking selfies and group photos and I thought what the heck.

I was overcome with emotion while doing that. And one of the other speakers, Azuka Zuke,

was so impressed that he challenged me to make singing part of all my future public speaking events.

If you want to hear more about that experience or watch the video, then you can read The Blind Blogger Is Profoundly Effected By Singing the River at End of Dreamcon.

Later on during that first speaking adventure I would also sing at Niagara Falls and record some sample versions of a future talk titled Music and Motivation.

Music and Motivation is one of those crazy ideas that became a reality in 2020.

The idea is that I would sing some songs, tell some stories, and teach some life lessons.

You can watch the full presentation here.

Or listen to it on one of the podcast players listed below.

The first virtual presentation went well, but we did learn some valuable lessons.

We heard from the audience that online talks should be shorter. So,